Removing Rating Bar?

See the bar that is under all of our usernames in the forums and comments? I think I'm going to remove that since the rating system here doesn't get used often enough. I'll leave the system up and running, but you'll have to view the profile to get the rating (everyone seems to be 'Clean', or Nothing wrong). The rating system is useful for two reasons. It rewards those that have useful post and are rated up while weeding out the bullshit by voting down, it also allows people to filter messages from people that have been rated poorly.

What are your thoughts?

meh.. we never use it really. the single message rating works so u can filter crappy messages but i think the user rating isnt really worth it but cus u made it already why not just leave it in the profile.

I think the most it got used for was upping Arons and Cakes' posts, while downing the jackasses who made all them sex threads. So, it would seem pretty pointless(to me) now.

My rating ruled.

i dont think my rating was ever used or bothered, so i really dont see a point in having it.

'cakes, your rating was like, 300,000.

we really didn't need the rating bars especially since we could already tell the idiots from the intellectuals

lol yeah, its pretty easy to see who woul dhave a bad rating and who would have a good rating just by thier posts

Yeah not to many people cared for the rating bar, so I personally don't see any point.